Epistemology category: 1240 books
by Elijah Chudnoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
We know about our immediate environment—about the people, animals, and things around us—by having sensory perceptions. According to a tradition that traces back to Plato, we know about abstract reality—about mathematics, morality, and metaphysics—by having intuitions, which can be thought...
by Plato
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great philosopher considering the nature of knowledge itself, in a debate with the geometrician Theodorus and his young follower Theaetetus. Their dialogue covers many questions, such as: is knowledge purely...
by Jennifer Nagel
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
What is knowledge? How does it differ from mere belief? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream? Questions like these are ancient ones, and the branch of philosophy dedicated to answering them - epistemology...
Narrative Naturalism
An Alternative Framework for Philosophy of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Narrative Naturalism: An Alternative Framework for Philosophy of Mind provides an original framework for a non-reductive approach to mind and philosophical psychology. Jessica Wahman challenges the reductive (i.e., mechanistic and physicalist) assumptions that render the mind-body problem intractable,...
Exploring Certainty
Wittgenstein and Wide Fields of Thought
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s On Certainty explores a myriad of new and important ideas regarding our notions of belief, knowledge, skepticism, and certainty. During the course of his exploration, Wittgenstein makes a fascinating new discovery about certitude, namely, that it is categorically distinct from...
by George Santayana
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Detailed presentation of American philosopher's pragmatic concept of epistemology, isolation of realms of existents and subsistents. Chapters include "There is No First Principle of Criticism," Dogma and Doubt," "Wayward Scepticism," "Doubts About Self-Consciousness," "Doubts About Change," "Ultimate...
The Constitutive A Priori
Developing and Extending an Epistemological Framework
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
The question of the a priori—can an adequate epistemology be developed without appeal to a non-empirical source of justification?—is a core issue running throughout the history of philosophy, and recent decades have seen some provocative and potentially epochal work on the issue. Arthur Sullivan...
The Normative Web
An Argument for Moral Realism
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Antirealist views about morality claim that moral facts or truths do not exist. Do these views imply that other types of normative facts, such as epistemic ones, do not exist? The Normative Web develops a positive answer to this question. Terence Cuneo argues that the similarities between moral and...
by Magnus Vinding
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
'Induction Is All We Got' is a collection of short essays on epistemology that deals mostly with the problem of induction, particularly what the status of induction is. Controversially, it argues that induction underlies all our beliefs.
by Janet Broughton
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Descartes thought that we could achieve absolute certainty by starting with radical doubt. He adopts this strategy in the Meditations on First Philosophy, where he raises sweeping doubts with the famous dream argument and the hypothesis of an evil demon. But why did Descartes think we should take...
The Creation of Reality
A Constructivist Epistemology of Journalism and Journalism Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Constructivism has been traded as a new paradigm by its advocates, and criticised by its opponents as legitimating deceit and lies, as justifying a trendy post-modern "Anything goes".In this book, Bernhard Poerksen draws up a new rationale for constructivist thinking and charts out directions for the...
Philosophy of Perception
A Contemporary Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
The philosophy of perception investigates the nature of our sensory experiences and their relation to reality. Raising questions about the conscious character of perceptual experiences, how they enable us to acquire knowledge of the world in which we live, and what exactly it is we are aware of when...
by Sarah Moss
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Traditional philosophical discussions of knowledge have focused on the epistemic status of full beliefs. Sarah Moss argues that in addition to full beliefs, credences can constitute knowledge. For instance, your 0.4 credence that it is raining outside can constitute knowledge, in just the same way...
Assertion
On the Philosophical Significance of Assertoric Speech
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Sanford C. Goldberg presents a novel account of the speech act of assertion. He defends the view that this type of speech act is answerable to a constitutive norm—the norm of assertion. The hypothesis that assertion is answerable to a robustly epistemic norm is uniquely suited to explain assertion's...